for l in open('a.txt', 'r'): ar = l.split(' ') if len(ar) == 2: fd[ar[0]] = ar[1]
with open('out.txt', 'w') as fw: for l in open('b.txt', 'r'): ar = l.split(' ') if len(ar) == 2: if ar[0] in fd: fw.write(' '.join([ ar[0],fd[ar[0]].strip('\n'),ar[0],ar[1]]))